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"12-year-old Louis likes to peer over his fence in suburban Mangere Bridge and see which sporting hero might be walking down next door’s driveway this time.
He was alerted to this unlikely procession the day he told his next-door neighbour John Tapu that Tapu’s visiting relative looked just like the 54-cap All Black Julian Savea. It was Julian Savea, Louis learned.
The celebrities walk past Tapu’s red-brick bungalow, on the lowest slopes of Mangere Mountain, down to what was once his garage. $160,000 and a re-mortgaged home later, it is a fully-operational television and recording studio. In Tapu’s mind, it could become the “Paramount of the South Pacific”.
It’s here, driven by a desire to honour his late mother, that the former Sky TV executive plots the career of a country-singing Samoan banana farmer being courted by Sony, and makes TV shows including, remarkably, what might be the first Pasifika primetime show in New Zealand television history...."
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